Stewart Pimblett

Growing up, Stewart was a keen and talented wheelchair basketball player, playing as a teenager before joining Tyneside Wanderers and then Milton Keynes Aces. Later he set up the Gateshead Reds wheelchair basketball team and was also player-coach at Carlisle Panthers. He played in numerous European club championships as well as representing Great Britain at the European Championships and World Games and was a board member at British Wheelchair Basketball from 2009 to 2013.

Having watched the Torino 2006 and Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, Stewart was keen to find out more about wheelchair curling and after a trip to Kelso Ice Rink he began playing - and set up England’s first wheelchair curling club, Northern Ice.

Stewart first represented England at the World B Wheelchair Curling Championships in 2015. In 2024 he represented England at the World B Championships where the team won bronze, securing a slot at the World Wheelchair Curling Championships in March 2025 where he was skip of the England team that finished eighth. Stewart also won the award for sportsmanship.

Stewart was involved in a road traffic accident when he was 9-years-old which resulted in a spinal cord injury. He left hospital after nine months and attended various schools before settling in Pendower Hall School in Newcastle where he played many sports including wheelchair basketball, attending the Junior National Games at the Ludwig Guttman Sports Centre in Stoke Mandeville and travelling to the USA to play wheelchair basketball in New York.